Examples

It's up to Betsy Mitchell of Del Rey Books to acknowledge market realities, the elephant in the room: Betsy: Due to the costs involved in hiring so many contributors to the job -- pencilers, inkers, scripters, letterers, colorists if the work is in four-color -- economics demand that authors who have a large and loyal fan following are the best choice for adaptation.

He was quickly acknowledged as being one of the best pencilers in comic books and the readership on Wolverine went through the roof, returned to the splendor of the Marc Silvestri penciling days years before.

This is a jam session kind of thing with several artists taking a page from the script and all working together as pencilers, inkers, colorists and letterers to produce one of the best online comics I have ever seen.

A new series followed, written by Don McGregor with art by pencilers Rich Buckler, Gil Kane, and Billy Graham, and which gave inkers Klaus Janson and Bob McLeod some of their first professional exposure.

Inkers frequently "finish" the penciler's art, and making an unusually big deal out of the fact that Kesel added details to many of Liefeld's figures reinforces the false notion that inkers simply "trace" the lines put down by pencilers and does a bit of a disservice to the profession of comics inking.